Exam 1: NSG121/ NSG 121 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Review with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A- Herzing

Exam 1: NSG121/ NSG 121 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Review with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A- Herzing Q: What are two things that need to happen to have effective communication ? Answer: Send a message and receive a message Q: When communicating with a patient what is the best indicator to know the communication was effective ? Answer: Saying it back to the person, body language (nodding) Q: What role does perception play with a hospitalized patient ? Answer: It plays a role in how the patient will heal . If they've had a bad past experience etc. Sender, receiver, culture and perception are all components of the process that can influence communication, but this client's perception is important. Q: What is reflection when used in therapeutic communication ? Answer: Summarizing in very brief terms what the patient told you Q: What is elaboration ? Answer: demonstrated by the nurse using a response that encourages the client to keep talking Q: What is the significance of nonverbal and verbal communication: Answer: Nurse / patient relationships develops. Q: What is the first phase of the interview process? Answer: Pre-interaction phase. before you start interview, reviewing charts, patient's history, demographic data Q: What does the beginning phase of the interview include? Answer: Introducing self and explaining the need to ask personal questions Q: What is the working phase of the interview process ? Answer: Asking specific closed or open-ended questions like , do you take medications or what brought you into the hospital, history of present illness Q: What happens in the closing phase of the interview process? Answer: The last phase is the closing phase where the nurse summarizes the most important issues that the client mentioned and clarifying that the nurse is correct. Q: Closing phase of the interview process includes: Answer: Psychosocial and lifestyle factors family history can be a sensitive subject and the nurse should wait and ask questions about these subjects closer to the end of the interview. Asking about mental health, anyone hurt you, marks or bruises body parts, human violence or sexual history are sensitive subject. Psychosocial Factors: Involves asking personal questions. Ask at the end interview since a relationship has been established. Examples, social, cultural, and spiritual assessment, mental health assessment, human violence assessment (abuse, bruise on body parts, and sexual history and orientation ( i.e. kinds of people to whom you are mainly attracted gender identity lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex) Q: Assessment for Violence & Abuse Answer: Put patient's safety first Do not question in front of friends and family ( abuser could be there ) Establish rapport and ask questions simply and directly - "Do you feel safe at home ?" Do not assume who abuser is Do not ask about police or pressing charges. This decision is up to the prosecutor Q: What are primary sources of data Answer: The patient Q: What are secondary sources of data ?